Author Archives: Riya Advik

Senior police officials, a forensic team and a dog squad swung into action and within 12 hours of the FIR, the culprit was nabbed with the help of a CCTV camera fixed outside the building. A case of murder was registered at a police station in Pune after a 17-year-old girl was found raped and murdered on Thursday evening. The ...

BHUBANESWAR: A minor girl from West Bengal has been allegedly drugged and gang-raped by five men in Odisha’s Balasore district. The accused allegedly took the girl with them on Friday night, raped her and then dumped her on the roadside near Rasulpur village in the district, police said. Police say it was the locals who found the girl first. She ...

HISAR: Four days after a professor of Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Universit, was arrested for allegedly raping and threatening his 16-year-old Dalit house help, police claimed he was framed and named five others, including the minor and her family, for extortion. The girl and her younger brother were detained and their mother arrested on Saturday along with a ...

KATHUA (IOK): Family members of the accused in the Kathua rape-murder case have called off their hunger strike, days ahead of the commencement of trial in the sensational case. Five women relatives of the accused had started ‘Fast Unto Death’ protest on March 31 to press for a CBI probe into the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl from ...

Goa Police on Saturday arrested three persons in connection with a gang-rape at the popular Colva beach late on Friday night, even as a Goa Minister has bemoaned the quality of tourists visiting the coastal state. The three accused-tourists from Indore have been charged with robbing and gang-raping a 20-year-old girl late on Friday, while she was visiting Colva beach ...

A 50-year-old man has been arrested from India’s southern state of Kerala for allegedly raping his 90-year-old mother-in-law. The accused assaulted the elderly woman on March 2 afternoon after her daughter went to meet their neighbors. According to reports, the man was staying at the victim’s house since marriage. The man was drunk when he committed the crime, said police, ...

Pune: Samarth police on Thursday arrested a 32-year-old man from Nana Peth for raping a nine-year-old daughter of his neighbour. The sexual assault occurred on Wednesday afternoon at the suspect’s house. He has been charged under section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and the relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The girl’s ...

Bareilly, Jan 5 (PTI) A coach has been booked on charges of rape and also under the POSCO Act for allegedly attempting to rape two minor women athletes. Superintendent of Police (city) Rohit Sajwan today said, a case under the POCSO Act and for committing rape has been registered against the absconding coach Sahibe Alam. According to police, a woman ...

The investigating officer in the case said police recovered condoms from the spots the woman identified in her complaint. A woman from Delhi has said she was raped by 23 men after being abducted from a road on the outskirts of Bikaner in the middle of the day. The woman, 28, said she had gone to Ridmalsar Purohitan in B ...

Vidhi Doshi In India, many consider them “monsters.” Madhumita Pandey was only 22 when she first went to Tihar Jail in New Delhi to meet and interview convicted rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. It all ...